I had another health incident yesterday. It kind of makes me feel like I’m dying.
Continue reading post "#3389"problem posts
The xmlrpc.php file of my WordPress blog recently got hit by a single bot some 5000 times over a half hour period recently. I temporarily disabled all visitors and then limited it to just blocking the specific IP via Apache conf (htaccess).
I woke up in the middle of the night last night fighting a strong feeling of sickness. I think it was just a stomach bug.
Continue reading post "#3325"I bought a short domain name in part so I could have a short email address that was easy to share. Unfortunately, I’m finding it to sometimes confuse people or require more effort than expected to spell out.
Continue reading post "#3314"The installation of a new version of nodejs via MacPorts took nearly two hours.
Continue reading post "#3312"I guess npm doesn’t find a version of a package that matches the current environment when doing npm install whatever.
I successfully switched my regular Firefox profiles back from Developer Edition to regular edition by waiting for the version to update.
Continue reading post "#3305"Recaptcha and prototype.js conflict
One of Cogneato’s clients noticed that Recaptcha wasn’t working on their site. The checkbox wouldn’t check at all. I noticed that there was an error like “Unexpected token in JSON at position 0” in the browser’s console log. Since this was one of our really old sites, I figured it might have some sort of inadequate polyfill for JSON.parse(). I saw that the site was using Prototype.js, so I looked through the script to see if it was overriding that method, but it wasn’t. That did put me on the right track, though, to find the Stackoverflow answer that solved it for me.
Prototype was overriding the now browser standard reduce() method of Array.prototype with its own, incompatible functionality. The solution was simply to remove that method from the “prototype.js” file. We weren’t using the special Prototype functionality anywhere, so this didn’t cause a problem. If we were, we’d probably have to duck punch the browser’s functionality to handle both method signatures.
Seems like domain registrars strip off “www.” from the beginning of domains when searching, even when trying it as a second level domain.
Continue reading post "#3294"Fallback webfont and emoji
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Recently I found that browsers will download a fallback webfont (@font-face) to try to find an emoji or other missing character. I was looking at the perf characteristics of my site when I noticed that the browser was downloading a webfont that wasn’t being used at all. After some digging, I found that the browser was going down through the full font stack to try to find an emoji I had added to that page, downloading the webfont on the way.
This is probably not a common setup, but I have a webfont in my font stack down stack from some similar common system fonts, as a fallback just in case. It uses a nice system font unless it can’t find it, in which case it uses the webfont, unless it can’t use that, in which case it uses a less desirable system font or the generic font class.
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